Lathyrus ochroleucus |
Lathyrus nissolia |
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cream pea, cream vetchling, cream-flower peavine, cream-flower sweet pea, creamy peavine, pale vetchling |
grass pea, grass vetchling |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, from rhizome, glabrous except calyx ciliate. | Herbs annual, glabrous. |
Stems | angled, sprawling or climbing, basally branched 0–3 times, 3–8 dm. |
not winged, erect or sprawling, basally branched 1–several times, 1–8 dm. |
Leaves | (2–)3–10 cm; tendrils well developed; stipules somewhat foliose, ovate-lanceolate, 15–35 × 5–20 mm, sometimes equal to distal leaflets; leaflets (5 or)6(–8), usually paired, blades broadly ovate to lanceolate, (20–)25–65 × 10–35(–42) mm, surfaces glabrous. |
phyllodic; tendrils absent; stipules filiform-linear, 1–2 × 1 mm, much smaller than phyllode, base semisaggitate; leaflets 0; phyllodes flattened, linear, and grasslike, 80–140 × 4–10 mm, glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 4–10(–13)-flowered, 3–12 cm. |
1- or 2-flowered, 6–10 cm. |
Flowers | 10–15 mm; calyx lobes unequal, lateral lobes lanceolate, usually longer than tube; corolla cream-white, banner erect, blade longer than claw, wings equal to keel; ovary glabrous. |
8–10 mm; calyx lobes equal, lateral lobes deltate, equal to tube; corolla crimson, banner erect, blade equal to claw, wings equal to keel; ovary glabrous or pubescent. |
Legumes | 30–70 × 4–7 mm. |
30–60 × 2–4 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Lathyrus ochroleucus |
Lathyrus nissolia |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Moist woodlands, clearings, thickets, glades, meadows. | Disturbed areas, grassy meadows. |
Elevation | 0–1500 m. (0–4900 ft.) | 50–150 m. (200–500 ft.) |
Distribution |
AK; IA; ID; IL; IN; MI; MN; MT; ND; NE; NJ; NY; OH; PA; SD; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; AB; BC; MB; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT
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OR; WA; Europe [Introduced in North America; introduced also in n Africa] |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lathyrus | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Lathyrus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | L. nevadensis subsp. stipulaceus | |
Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 159. (1831) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 729. (1753) |
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